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Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Behind Evernote's decline: lack of focus hampered growth, products failed to convert free users  —  The inside story of how $1 billion Evernote went from Silicon Valley darling to deep trouble  —  In 2012, the note-taking app Evernote became one of the first “Unicorn” startups …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
IBM scientists create tiny carbon nanotube transistors that could potentially replace silicon transistors in future computer processors  —  IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors  —  In the semiconductor business, it is called the “red brick wall” — the limit of the industry's ability …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
GitHub Launches Support For U2F Security Keys  —  Today at its first user conference, GitHub Universe, GitHub announced that it's launching support for FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) security keys from companies like Yubico and others.  These physical USB keys automatically generate …
Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:
Autonomous vehicles are safer, more efficient, utterly inevitable, and truly transformative  —  Google's Cute Cars And The Ugly End Of Driving  —  The main thing you should know about autonomous vehicles is that they are utterly inevitable.  —  BuzzFeed News San Francisco Bureau Chief
Jeff / iFixit:
New gaskets and seals make iPhone 6s and 6s Plus less prone to liquid damage than predecessors  —  Is the New iPhone Waterproof?  We Opened It Up (Again) to Find Out  —  On Friday, we tore down Apple's two newest iPhones and found something new lurking (quite literally) just below the surface.
Joshua Ho / AnandTech:
Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ reviewed: best Android phablets on the market with incredible displays, fast and efficient SoC, significantly improved TouchWiz  —  The Samsung Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ Review  —  The Galaxy Note line has long been one of Samsung's greatest assets in the mobile market.
Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:
Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Becomes Alphabet's ‘Do the Right Thing’  —  “Don't be evil” is so 2004.  —  Alphabet Inc. posted a new code of conduct for its employees Friday, after Google completed its transformation into a holding company.  There were few substantive changes in more than 20 documents filed …
Mark Bergen / Re/code:
Google Inc. formally became a subsidiary of Alphabet at the close of US markets on Friday
Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business:
Published academic research shows Google's robotics group is making strides; source says group will become a separate division under Alphabet  —  A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot  —  The company's secretive robotics group is making strides, according to interviews and academic research.
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump says Stephen Colbert is a “pathetic trainwreck” and “CBS should, ‘put him to sleep,’ NOW”, after CBS aired a Late Show rerun in which Colbert mocked Trump

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Sources: Bari Weiss skipped five 60 Minutes CECOT screenings; after her edits were added on Thursday, she asked on Friday to add a Stephen Miller interview

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Disney crosses the $6B milestone at the box office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic; no other studio has managed to reach $6B since 2015

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Derek Walter / Greenbot:
Motorola to drop Moto Assist, Migrate, and Connect in transition to Marshmallow
Jun Hongo / Wall Street Journal:
Japan officials and Robot Taxi say a pilot program for unmanned taxi service will launch with a small group of riders in 2016

Earlier Picks

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft acquires game-technology vendor Havok, known for its physics engine, from Intel for an undisclosed sum
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Retail brokerage firm Scottrade says breach from late 2013 to early 2014 compromised up to 4.6M customers' contact information, including SSNs
Jai Vijayan / darkREADING:
Researchers find curious Linux.WiFatch malware on tens of thousands of routers and IoT devices that appears to be securing infected systems
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